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Thank you, NCL, for your warm Southern hospitality and welcome! I hope my other posts thus far are also helpful. I wonder if this economist has ever knelt in the dirt, dug a hole, and planted a seed -- then watered it and watched over it until it became a green living thing with an ECONOMIC...

One of my favorite books as a young adult was "Five Acres And Independence," which helped solidify my goals to be self-sufficient with a large garden and small livestock to SUPPLEMENT my food budget. At no time did I entertain the notion that I could produce the MAJORITY of what I needed by...

Thanks for the great tip on Azure, BB! I've bookmarked their site and will definitely be checking them out. Yes, I'm both a Master Gardener and a Master Food Preserver through my county Extension Service and have given dozens of seminars to the public to raise their awareness about gardening...

I'm glad I found this forum and have been reading the threads with great interest. I've even posted a few comments already that I hope are helpful. Speaking of being helpful, this policy paper from the American Trucking Association single-handedly convinced me to stop procrastinating on...

This list was so helpful in getting me to organize my shopping and preps, and I still carry a copy with me, annotated with what I need to buy when I win the lottery. :cool:

What a great heads-up for a thread topic! I remember Love Canal... :( Before you go to all that trouble of researching property records on your dream house and land, go find a popular old-fashioned diner and chat up the locals who hang out there. "When I was a boy, it rained 40 days and 40...

Have you seen the Brady Shallow Well Kit that's carried at Home Depot and Ace Hardware? http://www.campbellmfg.com/brady/documents/wellinstallation.pdf It looks intriguing and it's affordable. I'd love to hear from someone who's done what the OP wants successfully.

This is very cool! Thanks for posting it. The data are indeed up to date, as the tragic explosion at the Anacortes refinery that happened yesterday is already on the map.

Thank you for the welcome, Old Fashioned! I am indeed a Washingtonian (east of Chehalis). It'll be JUST MY LUCK to have survived ten years in California living right next to the San Andreas fault without a WHISPER of earth movement -- and now have a front-row seat in Washington for The Big One...

Since I live between A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE population-wise (Seattle and Portland), I'm hoping my central location and being three secondary roads removed from I-5 back in the hills will result in all those Harleys running out of gas before they find me. :) Of course, I also rely on a tight...

After the earthquake in Chile, I read several scary articles about how similar the situation is in the Seattle area, which is overdue for a MAJOR Cascadian Subduction Zone quake. So if the quake doesn't get me when I just HAPPEN to be in Seattle at the University of Washington Dental School for...